Leavening agent.



FREDERICK B. LA FORGE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

LEAVENIN G AGENT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application filed April 13, 1918. Serial No. 228,383.

(DEDICATED TO THE PUBLIC.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK B. LA FORGE, a citizen of the United States of America, and an employee of the Department of Agriculture of the United States of America, residing at Washington, D. 0., (whose post-ofiice address is Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.,) have invented a new and useful leavening agent.

This application is made under the act of March 3, 1883, chapter 143 (22 Stat. 625), and the invention herein described and claimed may be used by the Government of the United States, or any of its officers or employees, in the prosecution of work for the Government, or any person in the United States, without payment to me of any royalty thereon.

My invention relates to the production of a material suitable for use as a leavening agent by mixing sodium bicarbonate and a lactone of one of the monobasic acids of the sugar group, especially gulonic acid lactone.

In the practice of my invention I mix sodium bicarbonate with gulonic lactone in about equivalent amounts, With or without the addition of other acid reacting sub stances or inert materials. The product thereby obtained Will be found to be an efficient leavening agent.

Having thus described my invention, I claim;

1. The process of making a leaviening agent by mixing sodium bicarbonate with a monobasic acid of the sugar group, substantially as described herein.

2. The process of making a leavening agent by mixing sodium bicarbonate with gulonic lactone, substantially as described herein.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK B. LA FORGE.

WVitnesses:

ARTHUR J. DECKER, L. S. HULBER'I. 

